Nokia has sent out the official invites to its Mobile World Congress (MWC) press event. The event is to be held on February 26th at 4:30 PM (local time in Barcelona). The company’s new gigantic tablet was recently leaked onto GFXBench last month – so that device is already on the cards. In addition, the company might announce some type of a wearable product during MWC.
The company’s rumoured flagship has been leaking for a while now under two names, Nokia P1 and Nokia 8, and we still don’t know which of these two names will the company use once the device lands. This smartphone is expected to ship with the Snapdragon 835 SoC, though that’s highly unlikely if Nokia plans to announce it during the Mobile World Congress.
This however is not a probability, since Samsung will pick up the whole first batch of Snapdragon 835 SoCs for its Galaxy S8. So it means that Nokia will have to wait if they want to release a Snapdragon 835-powered smartphone. In terms of rumoured specs, the Nokia P1 / Nokia 8 is expected to sport Sharp’s IGZO QHD (2560 x 1440) display, and a 24-megapixel rear-facing snapper.
Ancroid Nougat will come pre-installed on that smartphone, and you’ll also get some of Nokia’s custom features on top of it. Nokia’s leaked tablet features an 18.4-inch QHD display, while it packs in 4GB of RAM and 64GB of native storage. A 12-megapixel snapper is placed on both its back and front side, and Andriod 7.0 Nougat was also mentioned by GFXBench. So for now, Nokia’s MWC press conference is still a mystery, but chances are more info will leak before MWC kicks off.
